Check out the punk version of the anthem of the GDR. This rocks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ9sjH1HUeg
And the techno version of the Soviet/Russian anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfTmjEDa-Kc
While I'm ignoring overposting rules with wild abandon (sorry Doug, won't happen again), look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79wp2L3fT6Y
It's a trip through nostalgialand at so many levels!
--- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 12:53 -0700, Chris Doss wrote:
> > --- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Considering that Haydn wrote it, this is not too
> > > surprising.
> > > (Deutschland, not Horst)
> >
> >
> > Did he? I did not know that! Thank you. It really
> is
> > nice.
>
> Yeah. been running through my head ever since you
> first mentioned it.
> The only national anthem I know of that's _lyrical_.
> All the others have
> that thumping, foursquare chest-beating quality --
> even O Canada, in
> spite of its relatively pacific words. Whenever you
> hear the tuba and
> the bass drum, I always say, the panzers can't be
> far behind.
>
> That said, I do confess to a weakness for the
> Marseillaise.
>
> Then there's the Star Spangled Banner, which is
> totally wack. A range of
> a twelfth -- and what other national anthem is in
> 3/4 time, for heaven's
> sake?
>
>
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